No power cuts here Lindy … yet! 
none here either touching wood
Apparently we’re all getting a letter!
Will Boris be licking the stamps :shock:
That could be very good news.
The only fibre internet connection I can get here is Virgin Media who, because they have no direct competition, can afford not to compete with some of the cheaper (non-fibre) providers.
If a third option - satellite internet connection - becomes available, and of course that depends on price, that could sway me to take up their offer. Of course, I assume that I would have to have a satellite dish which would incur an additional cost.
I shall watch out with interest.
Now that is scary. This is why I bought some bbq kindling when I was buying seed potatoes at B&Q just before lockdown. At least with a BBq you can boil a pan. Well if there is water of course…
Perhaps there will be new tech which doesn’t require a dish. you’d think that they had reduced the size of receiver by now.
I must say that this idea of Boris’s to send everyone a letter will prove to be a complete waste of money - our money!
Most of us already know all there is to know about avoiding coronavirus, so we don’t need a letter telling the same things again.
Those who think they are immune from coronavirus are probably so thick that they can’t read anyway, so letters would just be thrown in the bin!
I think that some sort of external receiver would be necessary. Have you tried using a sat-nav receiver inside your house?
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I don’t really know much about the tech but the internet needs the satellites for transmission of info does it not?
Yes, but not to individual users.
Alexander
I’m not so sure about that. I used to have an RV with a satellite dish on top. Whenever I moved the RV I had to realign the satellite dish. For example: depending upon where I was, I might have needed to point the dish south-south-west and then so many degrees above the horizon. Now days, RV sat dishes often come with motorized automatic dish alignment.
I stand corrected.
Ok I assume internet satellites are nothing to do with TV. So does anyone know why we need quite so many?
I had power cuts yesterday, but only for a few minutes.
Just long enough to mess my cooker clock up and the time on my landline phone. 
You guys are scaring me. Anyone else had these?
The letter from Boris will be to close a legal loop hole that is very commonly used by lawyers when they want to stop or prevent things from happening by using the legal defence of ‘I did not know’. Not everyone has a TV and not everyone has a radio but everyone has an address which will have some way of allowing post to be delivered. If a person does not read the letter then it is their choice but as long as the Royal mail can prove all letters were delivered, the defence of ‘I did not know’ will not stand up in court.
So if the letter has instructions that the public are not to do something and if they do there will be consequences, anyone ignoring that advice can be dealt with irrespective if they have not read the letter.
Ah, but don’t forget half the armed forces might be down with Corona Virus some time soon! :shock:
That’s just given me another thought . . . . what if the police forces start falling by the way side with the virus too?? :shock:
Today, technology is moving so rapidly that it is difficult to “keep up to speed”. Just when I think I am reasonably aware, I often discover that a year later my info is prehistoric.
Today, the average 12 yr old knows far more than me about cell phones and computers. 
I think that is a given. However, the U.K. and the U.S. have the necessary forces in reserve. It is possible, perhaps even likely, that we will see armed troops in the streets to protect the honest citizenry. Both our countries may need , repeat may need, to call up discharged troops.
Pres. Trump has been given “war time powers”. Not to worry. Those troops are our sons, grandsons, and nephews. The last thing they would ever want is to engage in a coup d’état.